there's no natural segue for the fiscal cliff. come on back, clayton. >> juliet: it's fine. >> dave: we need your help to avert the fiscal cliff. congress back in session today and we understand, be careful, get your hazmat suit out. >> juliet: stop that now, come on. >> dave: we understand there's about a three o'clock deadline to present this new deal. we hear there may be some sort of a new deal coming out of the senate, when it comes to mitch mcconnell and harry reid presenting something, we don't know what, probably some sort of threshold around 4 or $500,000. >> and look on the table, the president sequestration and no one was going to have to deal with, they were going to get their act together months ago and now we're talking sequestration with two days left and 3 p.m., only hours left. >> dave: we'll have the latest with chris wallace in a couple of minutes. it's interesting as we near this fiscal cliff, the president signed an executive order that would give members of congress a raise, which is raise ago few eyebrows. >